"Clinical Deterioration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A critical disease progression, often measured by a set of clinical parameters, which activates HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM.
| Descriptor ID |
D000075902
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.291.656.350
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Clinical Deterioration" by people in Profiles.
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Identifying Early Predictive Factors of Unexpected Clinical Deterioration in Postoperative Pediatric Surgical Patients. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2026 Jul-Aug 01; 45(4):176-180.
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Real-time surveillance system for patient deterioration: a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial. Nat Med. 2025 Jun; 31(6):1895-1902.
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Multicenter Development and Prospective Validation of eCARTv5: A Gradient-Boosted Machine-Learning Early Warning Score. Crit Care Explor. 2025 Apr 01; 7(4):e1232.
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Causes, Diagnostic Testing, and Treatments Related to Clinical Deterioration Events Among High-Risk Ward Patients. Crit Care Explor. 2024 Oct 01; 6(10):e1161.
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Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration Outside the ICU: 2023. Crit Care Med. 2024 02 01; 52(2):314-330.
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Executive Summary: Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration Outside the ICU. Crit Care Med. 2024 02 01; 52(2):307-313.
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Systematic review with meta-analysis of mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proadm) as a prognostic marker in Covid-19-hospitalized patients. Ann Med. 2023 12; 55(1):379-387.
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I-PASS Illness Severity Identifies Patients at Risk for Overnight Clinical Deterioration. J Grad Med Educ. 2020 Oct; 12(5):578-582.
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Recognition of Impending Systemic Failure. Pediatr Rev. 2017 Nov; 38(11):520-529.
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An electronic trigger based on care escalation to identify preventable adverse events in hospitalised patients. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 03; 27(3):241-246.